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Re:Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-... by bostonpete on Friday July 25, 2014 @04:41PM (#8087532)
> Researchers did the same experiment with kids, > and kids under 6 failed every time.

How can this be??? If they didn't have the ability to keep track of which way was which, shouldn't they have failed 50% of the time, like the rats?

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Re:Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-... by greatzebu on Friday July 25, 2014 @05:46PM (#8087818)
I think this should be read as "kids under 6 failed [to perform better than chance] every time"
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Re:Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-... by randall on Friday July 25, 2014 @09:10PM (#8088466)
Correct. My bad. They acted just like the rats.
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